A simple concept, I posted once before, and I state again.
Toughness and Vitality are doing nothing to solve the power creep outside of pure crit and glass canon builds. Building over 2k toughness and 600+ vit, makes me really wonder what the point is when I get hit for 14k by a rifle warrior.
Honestly it has boiled down the one simple mechanic and though. WvWvW is about who crits first, nothing less. If you think differently, than you either don’t play that often, or are running one of the crit builds and are pulling your gun first (quite literally).
What is honestly and truly being done to remedy this? Most classes health pools are trash too, not even beginning to remedy the power creep that has happened on ascended gear.
Full zerk builds or even blended zerk builds can get anywhere between 60-80% crit chance and 85-115% crit damage without really trying. What is the point though as a defensive builds or stats when on a Guardian even, I am getting hit for 8k Backstabs and Churning Earths? And yes, still getting hit for 10k+ by rifle warriors.
I know other people are having these issues, and are having a frustrating time. Please speak up.
Possible fixes:
- Increase health pools.
- Provide more weakness procs or protection procs for classes outside of the crit builds.
- Reduce overall ascended gear critical hit percentage buffs (the roof has raised over 25% since January, yet toughness and vit have not risen to scale), or raise the stat ranges on toughness and vitality.
- Reduce damage combos and procs for the known outrageous 1-hit combos – EX. Thief = Basalisk – C/D – BS – HS spam // I do play crit thief, and yes, even I think this is just 1 example of many outrageous combos (in this class and in many others).
- Provide better passive trait rewards to those of us wanting to build AWAY from critical builds and zerk.
Playing a few of the classes and having an 80 in every class but Engineer, I can tell you that minus 2 builds in 2 classes, every other build is far out weighed by just going flat critical & zerk.
This teamed with the issue of zerging still, it makes for a very sad steam-rolling wild west shoot-out.
Please feel free to leave comments or ideas as well. Comments with trolling, harassing, L2P spamming, and a just plain rude nature will not be addressed. And yes, ANet, please do feel free to chime in. You know this is an issue as well, so what is being done to fix it?
-Icarus
Best of luck on your shoot-outs!